Saturday, February 25, 2023

The life and death of Colonel Blimp (1943) - war movie directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starring Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, James McKechnie and Neville Mapp

Rating 8.1/10
Runtime: 163 min
Language: English/French/German
Country: United Kingdom
Directed by: Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036112/

Cast

Roger Livesey ... Clive Candy
Deborah Kerr ... Edith Hunter
Anton Walbrook ... Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
James McKechnie ... Spud Wilson
Neville Mapp ... Stuffy Graves
Vincent Holman ... Club Porter (1942)
David Hutcheson ... Hoppy

Description: The setting is 1943 Britain. Major General Clive Wynne-Candy, a forty year military officer, is seen by some of his younger eager officers as an old, soft, pudgy man with a ridiculous mustache, he who has outdated ideas of what is required to win the war. But they have no idea of his background and military history, which shaped his outlook and the man he is today, including why he wears a mustache. This history includes a diplomatic row in Berlin over the German view of the British military in the Boer War, his time in the front lines in France during WWI and what he believes was the reason for the end of that war, and his need to reinvent himself over the course of WWII. He is also shaped by his friendship with four specific people, one being Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff, a German officer with whom he had an inauspicious inaugural meeting in 1902. The other three are the significant women of his life: Berlin based English schoolteacher Edith Hunter, Red Cross nurse Barbara Wynne, and Angela "Johnny" Cannon, his personal driver during WWII.

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/ipz9hxhk


Video and audio information:

Video : 3.41 GB, 2969 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 155
Audio : 114/94 MB (main/commentary), 96/80 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/1 channel, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English (including hearing impaired), Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Greek, Italian, Turkish) posters and screenshots included

Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by director Michael Powell and Martin Scorsese. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, additional track on Track 2)